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Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks

11-20-2009, 10:20 AM

Phoronix: Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks

Fedora 12 was just released this week, but features for Fedora 13 have been in planning long before this release made it out the door. In fact, it was last month that we began talking about features for Fedora 13...

Might help to proof-read the article before hitting the "post" button...

However, this support wouldn't be ideal for an average end-user since they are snapshots of the entire file-system and thus the /home/ directory is on a separate non-Btrfs partition, the user's data would also be rolled back.

... this sentence is indecipherable.
I *think* that "thus" should be "since", and the "would" should be "would NOT".

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Combined with a separate /home partition, or better yet separate /home/user partitions for each user, the snapshot capability would be pretty nice - you could rollback the system and user data individually as required.